For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ...

Rain with a high of 53 °F (11.7 °C) and a 57% chance of precipitation. Winds S at 6 to 9 mph (9.7 to 14.5 kph). Night - Mostly cloudy with a 80% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 6 to ...

British police on Tuesday arrested on suspicion of manslaughter the captain of a ship that crashed into a tanker in the North Sea, sparking a massive blaze and leaving one crew member missing ...

TOKYO -- With Japan's main deep-sea research vessel set to go out of service as early as the 2030s and no replacement in sight, the country risks falling even further behind China, which has the ...

and the South China Sea when looking at the desktop browser of Google Maps. Japan uses the term Sea of Japan to refer to the body of water separating it from the Korean Peninsula; South Korea ...

An alarming new study by NASA has found that parts of California, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, are sinking into the ocean at a shocking rate, exacerbating the effects of sea level rise.

US Navy Photo U.S. aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is operating in the Sea of Japan after wrapping a five-day port visit to South Korea on Friday, USNI News has learned. Carl Vinson (CVN ...

Video: Map shows tanker's movement before colliding with cargo ship in North Sea Graphics capture from website MarineTraffic showing an oil tanker colliding with a cargo ship in the North Sea.

South Korea says it happened around 1:50 p.m. on Monday. It says the salvo of projectiles was launched from somewhere inland, and appeared to fly west of the peninsula, into the Yellow Sea.

KUALA LUMPUR -- The U.S., European Union countries and Japan have increased the deployment of warships in the South China Sea in the last year to send "a message" to Beijing to respect territorial ...

(Janes/Ridzwan Rahmat) In a bid to improve the Mogami class's anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities, Japan has begun installing the vertical launching system (VLS) on selected hulls of the ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...